well guys welcome to las mas palomas this is where all the ghiris come all the foreigners look at the
beautiful playa de ngles underneath us and those are the dunes in the distance some of the most
extraordinary sand dunes in the world right there and the city of lomas as you can see
filled with tourists but lots of hotels we're gonna be staying here tonight and later on we'll
go explore the dunes but for now we're gonna be heading up into the mountains nearby to get some
better views of the area to hike and i'll see you guys on the hiking trail but check it out
well i put on my hat because the sun's actually a lot stronger here we're closer to the equator keep
that in mind there's many micro climates here on the island i think carlos told me there's
up to seven we were just in las palmas it was a little bit chilly cloudy even raining a little bit
we're gonna be assigning into the mountains where it's gonna still be dry and sunny like this
but eventually you'll see the cloud cover in the distance later on in the day and that's sort
of what makes this archipelago so unique is all these micro climates on every single island each
island has something different to offer whether it's gran canarias lanzarote you saw my videos
in tenerife last summer so let's explore these micro climates and the life here in las vegas
well you guys that lovely lady in there showed us or she gave us
this passport for uh camino right so we're gonna do a pilgrimage across the island
similar to the community santiago but the canary island version
oh my god for those that come to get the sun in the beach the hotel seeing the restaurants
this is your place it's just loaded with those places and of course the dunes in the background
but one of the reasons that us tourists don't frequent the canary islands like europeans is
because the lack of connecting flights i only think there's one direct flight from miami
otherwise you gotta come to europe to spain to france to the uk and then get a flight
from one of the airports there to here so most of the tourists here are from europe look guys
i want to tell you something in the peninsula the spanish peninsula of the iberian peninsula
we always have olive oil and gazpacho but here in the canary islands we have mo picon
it's the secret sauce so to speak it's what gives me energy keeps the engine running
what the hell are carlos and i doing with our lives here all this volcanic sharp rock and
trying to find a trail that supposedly exists but i don't know exactly
check it out the adventures of carlos and elliot wow tenemos
that's the trail down there goes through this canyon
we've literally encountered an aqueduct with with running water and i wonder this
must come from the mountains to the north interesting reroute has gone to plan well
oh and we came to under this aqueduct all right come on buddy
yes so all right we're making it all right
yeah whoa a canary island house we have some chickens
oh some people live here i don't want to alarm them
hopefully there's no dogs that can get off the chain
gracias
well now that real hiking begins it's a little history you guys so near the end of the 15th
century these islands were conquered by the spanish and the people that inhabited the
island before the spanish were the native guanche people right and scientists believe they were
native to the continent of africa northwest africa what would now be morocco mauritania
western sahara and they've done genetic research that the people in puerto rico cuba dominican
republic well they have the same genetics as the guanche people and like i said the main group of
immigrants that went from here in europe were a mix of extra manios people from extra madura
and luce gallegos galician people asturian people and canarian people kilometers and kilometers
of vast empty canyon like desert-like terrain here now another reason that people hear lo si
selenos the canary islanders ended up immigrating to the americas was because sometimes life here
was very hard with the islands being isolated and geographically speaking some parts of the island
are very desolate not a lot of things to live on so you can imagine people
living in the territory like this what were they to do they thought a better future awaited them
in the americas at least better than the life they had at the time here in the canary islands
well guys we finally found some shade to have some lunch
ha mucho color
all right so we haven't seen one of these uh arrows here here we go for the last five six
kilometers but we're in a dried up riverbed it seems like we're on track water's getting
low actually so hoping that around this uh canyon here this corner that we discover a nice canarian
village with a nice canarian restaurant
this day just keeps getting longer at the end of this valley here there's a little house we
can see hopefully it has water there's some palm trees here it's not an optical illusion
it's but at this point we're out of water we've been going now for about three or four hours
well you can see that at least during some point of the year there's water running through this
dry riverbed we've been meandering along it the last three or four hours here and we saw a
building up there a house so let's uh let's hope there's some water and some canarian food there
what am i doing to myself this is like torture
you guys i could be at the beach having a beer right now you guys
no end in sight
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we walked all of that oh god really thirsty
i don't know this is crazy
super bonito it's very pretty but
super dehydrated and i think the town's over this cliff here i really don't have any more energy
wow what legends the abuelitas canadians they live there in the distance they literally live there
i wonder if they have any other people there just two abuelitas
let's try the best coca-cola in my life
oh
oh my god try it bro
i've never tasted a coca-cola better in my life oh my god
papa
oh my god all right we gotta get to the village
you guys i gotta be honest i was regretting that uh this hike together but this is why we do it
there's a little village down there wowzers incredible carlos
here's a little uh view for all of you who are afraid of heights oh my god
i really think that uh if those canary and abuelitas didn't stop and uh give me that coke i
don't think i'd be walking right now because i was really at the point of exhaustion i was feeling
dizzy i'm still feeling a little dizzy carlos this guy's a a machine so we're heading down to
this village down there i mean just look at this canyon you guys so beautiful this whole island is
gorgeous and over on the other side you can see clouds might be hard to make out that's because
there's another micro climate and a change of scenery that you'll see perhaps tomorrow whoa um
nice little village bar la cueva it's kind of made into a cave here check it out
let's see if they have something cold to drink here i'm dead hola oh yeah
hey what's up man good job
oh we made it you guys look a little beat up
ah see
well you guys they they eat some really uh good interesting food here we have a ropa vieja which
is like technically old clothes so we got potatoes some sauce garbanzo some beef really tender
some red pepper that's not spicy we have the papas arugadas which literally means wrinkled
potatoes in the the famous canary island sauce called mo picon so this stuff is not that spicy
this stuff is really spicy and this stuff's medium but here's the papa sarugatas and you
guys i gotta say all of it's delicious and we're here at a nice place called la cuevita
kind of built into a cave on the side of the mountain here in this little canary island village
and man today was today was a hard hike you guys mostly because i i was dehydrated and
i didn't have enough water again my fault but i'm rehydrating now with some mineral water and
some uh tropical beer some canary island beer all right let's give the beer a taste it's a malt beer
very smooth and not as strong as the beers that you'll find on the peninsula but
okay paco's gonna show us the inside here we go nice restaurants
wow this is the cave la cueva la cuevita
las precious this is a damn
1940 you guys this village this uh area this restaurant the the dam very interesting
this is how he um cooks the meat all right wow check that out you guys wow carbon yes
okay espresso
what a nice guy what a nice guy here paco
he's really uh wants some business at his restaurant i'm sure we have some mountain
goats here some art in the mountains the canary palm tree beautiful place here beautiful place
and i paid 15 euros for the all the food and the drinks we have here so you guys i want to take
a moment to uh mention my sponsor this is west cork beard company products from up in clonakilty
ireland my buddy colin well he gifted this to me and it's really good stuff you guys especially
here in the canary islands where it's really dry and so after i go take a shower and clean up after
this long hike i'm gonna use this to moisturize my beard and this stuff is peppermint and tea tree
different than the stuff i was using the lavender and it's really nice you guys i really
like it especially here in a place like the canary islands so you can see the link in the description
well you guys i thought i was going to show you the sand dune but that will have to wait tomorrow
i am just shattered so i'll see you guys tomorrow good night
you